Anonymous asked:

Also, and this isn't necessarily connected to the earlier questions but, what is your view on prostitution, pornography, and the sex work industry in general? Just wondering.

Since the advent of online porn, an already large and lucrative industry has become even more rapacious and money-grubbing. It also has moved into more violence and humiliation–rape, bondage, forced anal sex, and much more. The easy access to online porn has influenced culture to such an extent that we now have teenage girls with permanent internal damage, even colostomies, because of the normalization of things like anal sex.

 I don’t buy the liberal argument that porn is empowering for most women and children who are exploited by it. Sex trafficking and human slavery feed the industry, and I don’t think anyone should support it–and that includes clicking online porn links. I don’t consider “sex work” actual work. 

I do think the people involved in the industry deserve protections and rights. They aren’t the enemy. The wealthy pornographers who are profiting from their labors are the ones who need to be exposed for what they are.

There is such a thing as erotica, which celebrates the human body, and consensual, joyful sex between consenting adults.  I frankly think it’s very easy to tell the difference between porn and erotica.